Sunday, May 29, 2011

back in 2006, during a "white period" I began making dream guardians,
These wallsculptures were sewn from white acrylic felt, not my favorite material to work with at all,
but I couldn´t find a pure white wool felt, so it was kind of a compromise using the acrylic.
In the end it´s been this compromise that stopped me making them.
But I always knew the dream guardians would come back and I only had to find the right material.

About one year ago the idea came up to make porcelain guardians.
It seemed to be the perfect material to me for these white creatures and I was very thrilled by this
thought (always love to try out new materials).

A long way with several attempts in making models from plasticine {1} and clay {2} followed,
the search for somebody to help me with the porcelain casting, the firing etc.
I was very lucky when a ceramist from Berlin responded to my request I had posted in a pottery bulletin board.

She wanted to try making a casting mold directly from the felt figure {3}, which turned out not that easy
and of course the felt figure didn´t survive this process {4,5}

All in all it´s been a time-intensive and complex process with much learnings. But to make a long story short,
it all turned out very well in the end and today I find myself happily doing first steps in painting